From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] memory stick Message-ID: <20030528212631.GA15467@thefrayedknot.armory.com> References: <004901c32506$6e4430a0$e3944251@insultant.net> <20030528171000.GB28522@thefrayedknot.armory.com> <003901c32554$43423980$e3944251@insultant.net> <20030528211319.GA15322@thefrayedknot.armory.com> <00dd01c3255e$9c123ba0$e3944251@insultant.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00dd01c3255e$9c123ba0$e3944251@insultant.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 14:26:31 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: bb2da2d2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 i keep them small, as small as I can manage, but they load off a floppy faster when they are compressed since I can decompress faster than i can transfer from a floppy. The only kernel that I actually need to compress is the klunky fossil kernel which needs to have rc and all sorts of other things built in. Soon though I will make it boot into kfs instead of something (now that I have many small hard drives) and that process will be unnecesary. On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:17:55PM +0200, boyd, rounin wrote: > > with compressed kernels it really isnt that bad > > if you need to compress the kernel, your kernel is _way_ too big. > > kernel = small, no? > >